Nate Silver Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.”

“We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.”

“To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.”

“The thing that people associate with expertise, authoritativeness, kind of with a capital 'A,' don't correlate very well with who's actually good at making predictions.”

“Success makes you less intimidated by things.”

“Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.”

“Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.”

“If you're keeping yourself in the bubble and only looking at your own data or only watching the TV that fits your agenda then it gets boring.”

“I've just always been a bit of a dork.”

“There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.”